David Gere, Ph.D., is director of MAKE ART/STOP AIDS, an international network of artists intervening in the AIDS epidemic. He also serves as director of the Art|Global Health Center at UCLA and is co-chair and associate professor in the Department of World Arts and Cultures, where he teaches courses in AIDS/arts activism. His most recent book, How to Make Dances in an Epidemic: Tracking Choreography in the Age of AIDS (University of Wisconsin Press, 2004), received the award for outstanding book publication from the Congress on Research in Dance. The book was also nominated for a Lambda Literary Award and received a special citation from the Society of Dance History Scholars and the De la Torre Bueno Prize. Gere studied music, dance, and Tamil in Madurai, Tamilnadu, on an Oberlin Shansi Fellowship 1980-82 and, in 2004, lived in Bangalore, India, on a research grant from the Fulbright Association, studying the ways in which artists in India are working in India to stop the AIDS epidemic. His partner, Peter Carley, is a counselor at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Center. They have two children, Christopher (8) and Isadora (7), and a pug dog named Pugster.